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Recent awards & nominations

Young Man With Camera

Young Man With Camera

By Emil Sher
Photographs by David Wyman

  • Short-listed, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, Amy Mathers Teen Book Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Vine Award for Canadian Jewish Literature, 2016
  • Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, Governor General's Award for Children's Literature - Text, 2015
  • Runner-up, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, 2016
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2016
An Inheritance of Ashes

An Inheritance of Ashes

By Leah Bobet

  • Winner, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2016
  • Winner, Prix Aurora Awards, 2016
  • Short-listed, Canadian Library Association Young Adult Book Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Cybils (Children's and Young Adults Bloggers' Literary Awards), Young Adult Speculative Fiction, 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
  • Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015
Sight Unseen

Sight Unseen

By David Carroll

  • Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2017
  • Short-listed, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2016
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2016
Last Shot

Last Shot

By David Skuy

  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2017
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius

A Year in the Life of a Total and Complete Genius

By Stacey Matson

  • Winner, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2015
  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
Haunted Canada 5: Terrifying True Stories

Haunted Canada 5: Terrifying True Stories

By Joel A Sutherland

  • Winner, OLA SIlver Birch Award, Non-Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2016
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
Speechless

Speechless

By Jennifer Mook-Sang

  • Winner, OLA Red Maple Award, Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2017
  • Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2016
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
  • Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2015
  • Commended, Quill & Quire, Books of the Year, 2015
Colossal Canada

Colossal Canada: 100 Epic Facts and Feats

By Frieda Wishinsky
By Elizabeth MacLeod

  • Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2017
  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2017
  • Short-listed, Surrey Schools’ Book of the Year, 2017
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, IODE Canada Violet Downey Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, CBC Best Books of the Year, 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2016
  • Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015
Sorrow's Knot

Sorrow's Knot

By Erin Bow

  • Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2017
  • Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2016
  • Short-listed, OLA SIlver Birch Award, Non-Fiction, 2016
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
Finding Ruby Starling

Finding Ruby Starling

By Karen Rivers

  • Winner, Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014
  • Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2014
  • Short-listed, CBC Bookie Awards, Best Canadian Young Adult Book, 2014
  • Short-listed, Sunburst Award, Young Adult category, 2014
  • Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2014
  • Commended, Kirkus Best Books, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2014
The Princess and the Pony

The Princess and the Pony

By Kate Beaton

  • Short-listed, Chocolate Lily Book Award (BC Children's Choice), 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
Scare Scape

Scare Scape

By Sam Fisher

  • Winner, CBC Children's Choice Book Award, Illustrator of the Year, 2016
  • Short-listed, The Globe and Mail, Best Books of the Year, 2015
  • Commended, OLA Best Bets, 2015
  • Commended, Kirkus Best Books, 2015
  • Commended, Quill & Quire, Books of the Year, 2015
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2015
  • Commended, Publishers Weekly, Best Books of the Year, 2015
Fox and Squirrel

Fox and Squirrel

By Ruth Ohi

  • Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2015
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2014
Ultra

Ultra

By David Carroll

  • Short-listed, Shining Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2015
  • Short-listed, Marilyn Baillie Picture Book Award, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2014
Dear Canada: All Fall Down

Dear Canada: All Fall Down: The Landslide Diary of Abby Roberts, Frank, District of Alberta, 1902

By Jean Little

  • Winner, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2015
  • Winner, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2014
  • Winner, Cybils (Children's and Young Adults Bloggers' Literary Awards), Middle-Grade Fiction, 2013
  • Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2014
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2014
  • Short-listed, Ruth and Sylvia Schwartz Award, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2014
Curse of the Dream Witch

Curse of the Dream Witch

By Allan Stratton

  • Short-listed, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2015
  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2015
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2014
Underground Soldier

Underground Soldier

By Marsha Forchuk Skrypuch

  • Winner, Canadian Library Association Book of the Year for Children, 2014
  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2015
  • Short-listed, Diamond Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2015
  • Short-listed, Monica Hughes Award for Science Fiction and Fantasy, 2014
  • Short-listed, Red Cedar Award (BC Young Readers' Choice), 2014
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2014
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2013
We're All Friends Here

We're All Friends Here

By Nancy Wilcox Richards
Illustrated by Tom Goldsmith

  • Short-listed, Kobzar Literary Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, Geoffrey Bilson Award for Historical Fiction for Young People, 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2014
Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend

Fox and Squirrel Make a Friend

By Ruth Ohi

  • Winner, Hackmatack Children's Choice Award (Atlantic Canada), 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
Rocket Blues

Rocket Blues

By David Skuy

  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, 2015
  • Commended, Toronto Public Library First & Best Booklist, 2014
The Madman of Piney Woods

The Madman of Piney Woods

By Christopher Paul Curtis

  • Winner, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, Manitoba Young Readers' Choice Award, 2016
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2016
  • Short-listed, Snow Willow Award (Saskatchewan Young Readers' Choice), 2015
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2015
Pyjama Day!

Pyjama Day!

By Robert Munsch
Illustrated by Michael Martchenko

  • Short-listed, Rocky Mountain Book Award (Alberta Children's Choice), 2016
  • Short-listed, OLA Silver Birch Award, Fiction, 2014
  • Commended, Best Books for Kids and Teens, Canadian Children's Book Centre, Starred Selection, 2015
Would You Survive?

Would You Survive?

By H Becker

  • Short-listed, Rainforest of Reading Award, 2016
  • Commended, Resource Links, Best of the Year, 2015